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Bauer Business Focus

Houston Company Wants To Use Blockchain Technology To Improve Health Record System

IT services firm Amsys promises to revolutionize how electronic patient records are stored

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Ed Mayberry
Ken Parekh founded Amsys in 2003. Its subsidiary Amchart aims to use Blockchain technology to create a patient-controlled health data system

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If you're into technology, you have probably heard of Blockchain, a digital accounting method for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

A Houston company wants to use this technology to create a new universal health record system.

For this week's Bauer Business Focus, we sat down with Khalid "Ken" Parekh, founder and CEO of IT services firm Amsys and founder of its subsidiary Amchart.

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